Sports
- Leslie Balfour-Melville, outstanding all-round sportsman
- Zbigniew Czajkowski, fencing master, "Father of the Polish School" of fencing
- Gemma Gibbons, Olympic Judo silver medallist
- Katherine Grainger, Olympic rowing gold medallist
- Peter Heatly, diver and former Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Sir Chris Hoy, the most successful British Olympian in history with six Olympic track cycling gold medals
- Andy Irvine, rugby player and president of the Scottish Rugby Union
- Michael Jamieson, 200m breaststroke Olympic silver medallist
- Eric Liddell, men's Olympic 400m gold medallist, and Scottish Rugby international
- Alistair Potts, Commonwealth and British World Champion rower
- Micky Steele-Bodger, English rugby international and Chairman IRB
- Robert Strang, English cricketer who played once for Scotland
- Simon Taylor, International and Professional Rugby player
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)